Improvement in wrappers for cigars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAB. S. SUTER AND GEO. M. PALMER, OF BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN WRAPPERS FOR CIGARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21,704, dated October 5,1.858.

'10 all whom it may concern;

Be it known that .we, JAMES S. SUTER and GEORGE M. PALMER, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a newand Improved Mode of Manufacturing Wrappers for Cigars and Chewing-Tobacco; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

Our invention consists in taking pearlash, powdered sal-aminoniac, lobelia or Indian tobacco, oil of anise-seed, oil of caraway, alcohol, rum, grass rope, cascarilla bark, opium,

sumac, and with stems or refuse tobacco mannfacturin g sheets for various purposes-name- 1y, wrappers for cigars or tobacco and sheets for wrapping woolen goods to prevent moths from cutting them, lining for boxes for same, and covering for carpets, the article made in this way being preferable to the natural tobacco,first,because'it can be madeof an y requiredbe previously boiled in lime-water, one-quarter pound; oil of anise-seed, one-quarter pound oil of cal-away, one-quarter pomat'eascarilla bark, mixedwith one-half gallon of alcohol, three gal-ions New Eugland'rum with st-emsor scraps of tobaccofirst softened with water. Beat the whole into a fibrous pulp, and sheet out on the same machinery as is used fer-sheeting paper, regulating the same so as to make it thick or thin, according to the purpose for which it is used.

Being aware that the stems and refuse tobacco have been beforeused for making a material similar to paper-mud for like purposes by John Adcock, in England, we desire to disclaim the use of said stems and refusetobaeco;, but

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters 'Patent',1is-

Taking pearlash, powered sal-ammoniac, lobelia or Indian tobacco, oil of anise-seed, oil of caraway, alcohol, grass rope, rum, cascarilla bark, opium, sumac, and stems or refuse tobacco, and converting it into sheets for wrap ping woolen goods to prevent moths from cutting them, lining for cases for the same, covering for carpets, and wrappers for cigars or tobacco.

Witnesses: I l

E. R. BAXTER, WM. M. RINLE. 

